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Category: Politics

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  Shipwreck at the Almeida Theatre review *****

  Shipwreck Almeida Theatre, 18th March 2019 The Tourist, as this blog shows, is a nice bloke given to giving creatives the benefit of the doubt. Hence the string of positive reviews on these pages. He likes to think that he is wise in his choice of entertainment. The reality is…

  April 5, 2019
• Culture Identity Ireland London Politics Religion Theatre

  Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court Theatre review ****

  Cyprus Avenue Royal Court Theatre, 4th March 2019 From one black comedy which imagines taboo breaking violence to make a political point (here big as well as small “p”) to another. Having seen the Ladykiller from The Thelmas at the Vault Festival it was off next evening with the SO,…

  March 26, 2019
• Capitalism Culture Germany London Politics Power Russia Theatre

  The Good Person of Szechwan at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  The Good Person of Szechwan Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre, Barbican Theatre, 9th February 2019 I am a sucker for these Russian theatre companies. Despite the fact that I can’t say I was bowled over by the last visits of the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg and the Vakhtangov State…

  February 27, 2019
• Capitalism Community Culture Economics Industry London Politics Theatre USA

  Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

  Sweat Donmar Warehouse, 24th January 2019 Who is the greatest living playwright (in the English language). Caryl Churchill. Obviously. Who is, in the opinion of the Tourist, probably the most talented playwright under 40 in Britain today. Ella Hickson. What was the best original play the Tourist saw last year.…

  February 15, 2019
• Culture London Politics Theatre

  I’m Not Running at the National Theatre review ***

  I’m Not Running National Theatre Lyttleton, 22nd January 2019 If you have a moment one day take a look at the writing credits of David Hare, both for stage and screen. There are a lot, including some of the finest dramas written in the English language over the past four…

  February 12, 2019
• Culture London Politics Power Theatre

  Pinter at Pinter 6 review *****

  Pinter at Pinter Six: Party Time and Celebration Harold Pinter Theatre, 17th January 2019 This for me was the best off the bunch so far in the Pinter at Pinter one act play season. And proof that Jamie Lloyd is the Man when it comes to directing the menacing Master.…

  January 28, 2019
• Culture History London Medieval Monarchy Politics Shakespeare Theatre

  The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida Theatre review ****

  The Tragedy of King Richard the Second Almeida Theatre, 9th January 2019 Vain, frivolous, self pitying, introverted. Richard II doesn’t come across too well at the beginning of this play, Shakespeare’s first instalment of his histories that chart the origins of the “War of the Roses” and end with the…

  January 19, 2019
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  The Favourite film review *****

  The Favourite, 3rd January 2019 The more theatre I see, the more I am turning into an insufferably superior luvvie. “A play will always trump a film because it is organic, dynamic, viewed from multiple perspectives, energised by audience complicity, palpable, alive, more daring in terms of form and structure”…

  January 15, 2019
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  Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms at the British Library review *****

  Anglo-Saxon Kingsdoms: Art, Word, War British Library, 30th December 2018 I mean it isn’t all books. There are charters and letters as well. And pottery, coins, art and jewels. But there are a lot of books. Oh my word though, what beautiful books. If you are at all interested in…

  January 13, 2019
• Biography Culture Germany History London Politics Syria Theatre War

  Borders (*****) and Games (****) at the Arcola Theatre review

  Borders and Games Arcola Theatre, 22nd December 2018 I had only seen one of Henry Naylor’s acclaimed plays prior to this double header and that was Angel at this very venue. That was enough to know that I like the cut of his jib. Mr Naylor, prior to writing plays,…

  January 8, 2019